Example sentences of "away [prep] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hummingbirds use spiders ' silk , gathering it in their beak and flying away with it trailing behind them . |
| 2 | Ordinary people regularly broke the rules and resorted to bribery if they could get away with it to obtain essentials or medical care , but then their corruption was a sign of independence asserted against the system , whereas Manescu 's was typical of a deep inner decay of the system . |
| 3 | Ballesteros 's 69 was more of a scramble , particularly over the closing holes , but he got away with it thanks to a short game which has been very consistent both this week and last . |
| 4 | The incentive for Preston to win was to go top of the table … enough said in the second half Ellis ran away with it to make it three-nil … |
| 5 | and she gets away with it do n't she ? |
| 6 | I 'd just like to get off my ladder and stop pretending to be somebody else , just be ordinary and not get away with doing this or that — and get away with it laughing . |
| 7 | Using the Microphone : Do n't get too close , you need to be about 9 ’ away from it to avoid distortion . |
| 8 | The consequence is that the reindeer feed is buried not only under a metre or more of snow , which the reindeer can cope with , pawing away at it to reach the lichen that is reindeer moss , but under many inches of solid ice . |